At the ripe old age of 119, Hurtigruten is an outfit fairly unique in the world, not just a Norway national icon but practically a public utility. Operating a 13-ship fleet divided into four classes, the company’s bread and butter is carrying both passengers and cargo up and down Norway’s rugged North Atlantic coast, rarely if ever losing sight of land (several other itineraries, though, strike out for Greenland and even as far afield as Antarctica). They're something of a hybrid between cruise ships and...
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